Virlana Tkacz is a literary translator and a scholar of Ukrainian modernism. She and Wanda Phipps have received two Fulbright Fellowships, the National Theatre Translation Award, the Agni Review Poetry Translation Prize, and three NYSCA grants for their translations. In 2020, their translation of poems by Serhiy Zhadan, What We Live For, What We Die For, was on the longlist for the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation. Tkacz is also a theatre director and head of Yara Arts Group, a resident company at La MaMa Experimental Theatre in New York City. She has created thirty-seven original productions for Yara that have been performed on three continents.